Aktindeling
Aktindeling is a system used in Dutch-language archival practice to organize acts (akten) by their legal function or type rather than by date alone. The term translates roughly to act classification and is applied to notarial, civil, and probate records in archives such as city and national repositories in the Netherlands and Flanders. The purpose is to facilitate retrieval, preservation, and cross-referencing by structuring documents around the nature of the act.
In practice, aktindeling groups documents into broad classes and subcategories. Common classes include property and real
Implementation typically involves assigning a primary class and subcategories to each act, often accompanied by a